Deerfield Academy Theater presents this luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth. It’s lush and limpid, like a dream where the audience and author swim in the unconscious’s magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow. Touching, inventive, and luminously liquid in its rhythms and design, Eurydice reframes the ancient myth of the ill-fated love to focus not on the bereaved musician but on his dead bride—and her struggle with love beyond the grave as both wife and daughter.
This is a weird and wonderful theatrical fable about love, loss, and memory’s pleasures and pains. The winter cocurricular play, by the incomparable Sarah Ruhl and directed by Lori Holmes Clark, runs less than 90 minutes with no intermission from Tuesday, February 25, through March 1, 2025. All shows start at 7 pm. Reserve your free tickets now!
One of the gifts of theatrical storytelling is that we get to break the rules of daily life in the service of ideas and emotions that feel bigger than ordinary circumstances can contain. As many poems do, this play incorporates metaphors, like water imagery. From the enormity of the ocean to the sound of a single drop, water’s changeable nature, much like memory, shifts depending on its “container” or the perspective of the person considering it. Don’t miss this compact, powerful play by one of America’s greatest living playwrights.